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,,f San Jose Stale, UCLA teammate Tim Daggett and Ne
braska's Johnson and Cahoy were all in top form.
j1 -it's almost like you can't expect to win anymore,
because everyone's so good," Vidmar said. "The most
'important thing that can happen for me here is that I
hit all my routines."
j Vidmar said he felt added pressure in both defending
i,jS title and making his final appearance for UCLA.
'"I know the pressure that Jim (Hartung) probably
felt last year," he said. "You want to do well. It's your
last time in the NCAA."
"I know I have plenty of meets coming up after this,
though, and I'll always have that '82 NCAA champion
ship," Vidmar said. "No one can take that away from
me."
In addition to Nebraska and UCLA, other qualifying
teams include Iowa, Penn State, Illinois, Arizona State,
Ohio State, Oklahoma, Southern Illinois 3nd Northern
Illinois.
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Here's some tongue-in-cheek rules that we'll see in the
future rulebook for Basketball Galactica:
First, I believe well see an electrical rim. If a ball
player puts his hand in the cylinder, itU hold him there
until he turns blue and, when the official scorer turns off
the electricity, hell drop to the floor. This will be a dyna
mite rule because itU eliminate a judgment decision by
the zebras.
There Tl also be a combination height rule. That is, at
any one time during a game, your team can't have more
than 33 feet of combined height on the floor. That way,
if you start four seven-footers, the point guard will have
to be either Willie Shoemaker ot Eddie Arcaro, two of the
most successful race jockeys in history.
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Another great innovation youH see will be keeping
statistics during the warm-ups, so we can stroke the subs,
give them an identity.
On the serious side, though, there are some rule
changes I really think college basketball needs if it's going
to stay Park Avenue.
One rule that's needed is a widening of the court. By
widening the court, we can put in the international three
second lane where the lines angle out diagonally to make
the paint area wider. Tire athletes have just become too
big and too agile, too mobile and hostile for the width
of the court today.
I would also like to see a change in the number of
fouls permitted, so a ballplayer with six fouls can join
the party.
lite biggest headache at the present time is the
cha.ging foul. Almost every coach now is teaching their
players to step in and take a Dustin Hoffman routine and
act out an Oscar-winning performance. It's getting to the
point phyers are afraid to penetrate and leave their feet.
I think next year youH see a very limited,
experimental three-point play at a set distance to be de
cided by the NCAA basketball rules committee. It won't
be like tliis year, where a three-pointer ranged from a chip
shot to a javelin throw, depending on which conference
you're in. Eventually, though, I see the three-pointer
going the way of knee pads.
But you will see the clock, and the clock probably
will start at 45 seconds and be in use for the whole game.
But down the road five to 10 years, I think they'll settle
on a 30-second clock and wont outlaw any defense, even
the zone, making any defense acceptable.
Another thing you'll see: Coaches will be forced to
stay in a box prominently marked in front of their bench,
a rule which the Southeastern Conference experimented
with this year. If the coach goes out of that box, it's a
technical, with a two-shot penalty. He can only come out
during a timeout, to discuss something with the scorer's
table or with permission of the officials.
That's a rule youH definitely see. And if I was still
coaching, I know I'd have to wear a seat belt. . .although
I might, on rare occasions, still be around to coach the
second lialf.
Another Buck Rogers rule of the future, and probably
before the 25th century, will be that in every game on
TV - locally or nationally - each team will only be
allowed two time outs in each half, instead of five time
outs per game. This would stop the road to eternity at
the end of the game.
Every coach knows that a televised game has eight
commerical time outs. So if each team uses all five of its
time outs at the end of the game, that's 18 altogeth
er. . .and enough time for a turtle to get to the kitchen,
grab a beer and get back. And that's why it sometimes
takes a half-hour to play the last minute and a half of a
game.
like 1 said, the coaches know when the commercial
time outs are coming. You get the commercial time outs
at 16 minutes, 12 minutes, eight minutes and four min
utes, or the first dead ball closest to that time, during each
half. If the coach happens to use one of his time outs
close to that time, then the officials accept that and break
away and skip the commercial time out instead.
What the smart coaches do, guys like Digger Phelps,
Eddie Sutton and Joe B. Hall, who are pros at it, is use the
commercial timeouts and save their own for the last few
minutes in case they need them. It's smart coaching but,
for the poor guy watcliing in his shorts on the sofa, it
kills the end of the game.
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